The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships. In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at games, is devoted to him. As they graduate from school to college, tensions start to surface. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes, but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.

The Folded Leaf

William Maxwell

Vintage Books

The Chateau

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage Classics

In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered.Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.

So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner

Literary

Vintage

Dr. and Mrs. Donald's dog Bun dreams of living in his own little house instead of the Donalds' house, but when his wish comes true it is not as nice as he expected.

Mrs. Donald's Dog Bun and His Home Away from Home

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Bible for Today's Church/Users Guide

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Seabury Pr

Language: English ISBN-10: 097419302X ISBN-13: 978-0974193021

Superparenting: Child Rearing for the New Millennium

Changing-times.net

Wandering Sketches Of People And Things In South America, Polynesia, California

WOOD

The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion Volume Yr.1853

Society, Virginia Historical

History

Andesite Press

The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell, one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography, memoir, diaries, and correspondence when reviewing books: "what people said and did and wore and ate and hoped for and were afraid of, and in detail after often unimaginable detail they refresh our idea of existence and hold oblivion at arm's length." In reading his reviews, we are struck by Maxwell's skill in choosing the one particular, the haunting moment, that further illuminates our understanding of the power of an individual life. His discernment is equally telling whether writing about literary luminaries such as Virginia Woolf, Lord Byron, E.B. White, Isak Dinesen, or delving into the diaries of an unknown Victorian curate with vivid dreams of murder and mayhem.

The Outermost Dream: Literary Sketches

Essays & Correspondence

Graywolf Press

John Holt Rice was born and buried in Virginia (1777-1831). Includes a short biographical sketch of the author by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg.

A Memoir of the Rev. John H. Rice, D.D.

Sprinkle Publications

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